Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-12

eyftable, and even if it should send the
sword among US for awhile in the effort
for peace, it must be answered. 1t is an
accident, then, altogether that the man
whose life he's been nodded by that
question and its possible an
swers. should have paused on
the unfinished volume of the Life OF
Christ. 1t has been 9sn of the pc pie,
ChIist-ward. We remind you tia though
the English speaking race today mourns
his fall and recognizes his loss,
though Americans recognize that
he has been great leader
or adviser in the guidance of all manner
of substantial. interests, though the
Legislature Ct the state paid him
the unusual honor OF adj)urrirg as
his right, though the press and
diyines and orators of all degrees are
irving to compass the mighty theme
in glowing words, in words of exulSing
grief, that we have had him with Us so
long and have lost him; yet, as he lies
there so quiet, We may look at him
as one who hiss been through
all and was in all things an apostle Of
of one supreme thought, preacher OF the
everlasting gospel Of the everything
Christ. You who knew him best,
you who have often listened
here in this church, know
well that first, last and always in no bar
rem or dreaming sense his life has been
absorbed in this work and hid with Christ
in God"
In closing his sermon DR.. Hall said:
GA brave and weary heart is here at rest;
brave of old TO dare brutal force and
defy the violence Of mobs and rutfians
in speaking for the slave, Drawer to
accept the murmurs and doubts of his
political friends when conscience prompt
ed him to part from them, bravest to
wrestle alone with great
sorrow when he could lind EO
earthly help. We honor him
for the courage of his former acts; We
love him and wonder ct him for the calm,
sweet, gentle resignation Of these last
years. God, | believe, has leo him
step by step to spend his last days
among us with wisdom gained from the
Cross, tender, gentle, sober wisdom
which helped him to see the Captain of
our salvation, who was made perfect
through suffering that we may all be
of one faith, and the Great Sufferer
was not ashamed to call us brethren. On
his last Sunday evening in this place two
weeks ago, after the congregation
had retired from il, the organ
ist and one or two others We're
practicing the hymn: Il heard the
voice Of Jesus say, Come unto Me and
rest" Mr.. BeeCher, doubtless with that
tire that follows PASTORS Sunday work,
remained anG listened Two street
urchins were prompted TO wander
into the building, and one of
them was standing in the position Of the
bow whom Raphael has iminOrtalized,
gazing up at the organ. The old
man laying his hands on the
bows head turned his face
upward and kissed him, and with
his arm about the two, he left this scene
of his triumph, his trials and his sue
cesses forever. 1t was fitting
close to grand life, the Old
man of genius and fame shielding
the little wanderers. Great in OYerCOm-
ing traditional ways and prejudices. rec
Ognizing as did the Master that the
humblest and poorest were his brethren,
the great preacher was led out
into the night by the nameless Waif.
The great life of Christ is left unfinished
for US to do our little part and
weave our humble deeds and
teaching into story. Then will
we praise our brother for his genius, pa
triotism, victories and intellectual labor.
NV love for him has bad its origin
in his broad humanity, his utter
lack of sham, his transparent love of
teaches US the lines Of duty.
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two things which he desired
most were glory of God and good of
men. SO it was with him, as the hearts
of grateful myrisds attest, but we bid
him here farewell and TO me
oftenest will come the vision OF him pass
ing out of yonder door with his
arms about the boys, passing
on to the city of God, where
he hears again the familiar voice of the
master saying: "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven"
During the delivery Of the Grafton
there was not dry eye in the house, and
several times Or. Hall was compelled to
stop for time to gain control Of
his voice. DR.. Hall pronounced
the benedlction, and the vast audience
slowly filed out of the church. 1t was
notable gathering, and one long TO De re-
membered by those present.
After the conclusion of the services ct
Plymouth church the public was admitted
to view the body. The peo-
pie were formed in line along
Orange and down Henry streets with
policemen every few yards to keep late
com.rs from breaking in. In q short
time the line extended for two
blocks, and two hours after the doors
were thrown open the line was nearly
a quarter of mile long, or three times
the length of that of the previous day.
The other churches In which services
were held were all crowded to
the utmost extent of their capacity.
It is estimated that fully $4,000 people at
tended the services in the various
and that fully twice that num-
Der gathered in the streets in the neigh
borhood of Plymouth church.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, Presbyterian,
delivered a sermon at the First Baptist
chvrch; Rev. S. H. Camp, Unitarian,
Rabbi Harrison and others Of other
in Sands street Methodist
church; Rev. W. T. Dixon, colored Bap-
tist, and others at the Unitarian church,
and Rev. c. Cuthcert Hail and others at